SEE Chanda Dancy interview: ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves' composer The fact that Reeves ... “We immediately hired him as a consultant and optioned his books,” he says. “I used part of his first ...

Image Bass Reeves (Oyelowo) accompanied George Reeves ... at a time when Black westerners were often written out of history books. It seems telling that the series is based on a work of historical ...

Bass Reeves was a runaway slave ... Freeman said, Thompson decided he wanted to rectify this situation. The first book of the trilogy was Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, which chronicles ...

SEE Chanda Dancy interview: ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves' composer The fact that Reeves ... “We immediately hired him as a consultant and optioned his books,” he says. “I used part of his first ...

Bass Reeves' based on two historical fiction novels ... Follow the Doves," and 2021's "Hell on the Border." The book, TV series and a minor 2019 movie follow Reeves' remarkable journey from ...

He died 3 years later after falling ill Most of what we know about Reeves' life comes from the 2008 book "Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves" by Art T.

Bass Reeves should be a household name because he ... who worked as a historical consultant on the show and has published three books about Reeves. His fascination with the lawman began after ...

Bass Reeves used to be the kind of deep-cut Wild West hero known only to American history professors and people who own complete sets of Time-Life books. A fascinating figure, Reeves was enslaved ...

But when Burton began rustling up research for a book on Reeves, he kept hitting dead ends, like when he tried to trace the Bass Reeves family tree. "A lady answered the phone, and she said she'd ...

is adapted from the first two books in author Sidney Thompson’s Bass Reeves trilogy, and stars David Oyelowo as the titular deputy US Marshal, the first Black man to serve in that position west ...

Last episode of Lawmen: Bass Reeves saw Bass confronted with a horrifying reality: Esau Pierce, the man who killed young Curtis back in May 1865 is not only now a Texas Ranger, but may very well ...

"Lawmen" borrows heavily from the first two historical fiction novels from Thompson's "Bass Reeves Trilogy": 2020's "Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves," and 2021's "Hell on the Border." The book ...